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One of the world’s most translated authors, Jules Verne is
remembered above all for a series of dramatic adventure novels that
have been adapted to television, stage and cinema, and whose titles
have become synonymous in the popular imagination with scientific
and technological progress in the nineteenth century. Perhaps most
famous are the titles Verne produced over an intensely successful
decade from the mid 1860s to the mid 1870s: Voyage au centre de la terre [1864; Journey to
the Centre of the Earth], De la terre à la
lune [1865; From the Earth to the Moon] and
its sequel Autour de la lune [1869;
Around the Moon],…

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